25 to Life...

I went to the Bandits playoff game last night, and it was unlike any Bandits game I’ve experienced in the past.

They [Bandits] went down 3-1 early in the 1st quarter, so the place [HSBC Arena] was pretty bummed as you can imagine.  Then it was all tied at 4 after the first.  Then the flood gates opened.  The Bandits just flat out dominated.  Goal after goal, and great defensive play eventually led to an 18-10 advantage in the 4th quarter.  At some point the Titans players decided to cause a little ruckus and tried to initiate a bench clearing brawl with the Bandits, but they kept their cool, but got a few game misconducts in self defense really.  After that whole fiasco, I could actually feel the HSBC arena shaking beneath my feet.  I was thing to my self “this is crazy bananas…”  The place went absolutely insane!  I’ve never, EVER, seen an arena that nuts and loud.  My ears were ringing afterwards.  It was absolutely insane.

Mark Steenhuis had 6 goals and 2 Assists for 8 points total.  John Tavares had 3 goals and 9 assists for a 12 point night.  Brent Bucktooth and Kevin Dostie each had a hat-trick.  It was the most fun I’d ever had at a Bandits game. 

I’m off to the Championship on Saturday, to join the frenzy that is Bandit Land.

As the title says, I feel like blah.  I got rear ended by a high school kid on Friday, I got a letter saying that I didn’t get a job I applied for, and work just flat out sucks.  No good news so far on the job hunt, but I may have a potential winner forth coming.  I’m also very tired, and more so than usual.  The past two weeks I just can’t seem to keep my eyes open past 10 pm anymore.  That may due to the fact that I spent the past two Saturday nights playing video games until 1 or so in the morning.  All in all, I don’t feel like doing anything of much.  

Hey, I’ve made it a month of sporadic updates.  Doesn’t really prove anything I guess. 

Well, it’s officially on.  It’s time to find me a new job.  I’m getting pretty tired of life where I am now.  It’s all politics with the bosses, and it’s not going to get any better any time soon.  Time to jump off of this sinking ship, and it looks like a bunch of others are jumping too.  Well, 2 others do not seem like too many.  But, one has been listing there 4 years (the one who was mentioned earlier, I was off by a year) and the other takes care of all of the return claims, refunds, and all that fun crap.  Will they?  Like I said, most likely not.

Anyway, I’m going tomorrow to a terra cotta making factory or similar place type thing about 20 minuets away.   Not too bad of a drive.  Another is a carpet warehouse.  I need to write a letter of interest, or something like that.  I’ll do that eventually tonight, if ever.  I’ll keep looking while typing my letter for anything that strikes my fancy as well.

I’ve only been active in the “Full Time” (or as I call it, real) work force for 2 years now.  It’s not like I’ve given 10+ years to this company and feel cheated, or left out of the loop or something.  I’ll have to go into detail my crazy scenario of what would have happened should I not have been demoted to shipping.  Hopefully, by the end of May (June at the latest) I’ll be out of there once and for all.

It’s looking pretty bleak for me going back to list in the offices.  They gave my desk away (managed to steal some good loot, should have snagged the camera too), and that’s not looking too good for my cause.  So, it’s “game over” for me, for now.  I still have a small hope that they will be so desperate for listing help that they’ll bring me back.  I'd ramble on, but it would make me even more depressed.  Here’s hoping for a continue screen to pop up:

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I almost had to go to the hospital on Friday.  I was cutting the flaps off of a box, and my hand holing my box cutter slipped and hit my forearm somehow.  Fortunately, the blade was not fully extended or I would have at least 3”-5” gash in my arm and multiple stitches (and a nifty looking scar afterwards).  This, would render me quite useless for a while.  This is good, because I need a vacation of some sort away from that place.  Ah, to be a bum again working part-time at the supermarket.  Oh, well.  Growing up SUCKS -_-‘

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In other work related news, everyone is pretty much ready to quit.  From what I’ve heard, they are hiring some new people (again, not helping my cause) and they are going to make 25 cents less than someone who has been there 3 years.  She’s all mad and is ready to go.  Another is tired of having cut hours and being “bossed” around by the warehouse manager.  So of course she leaves work early and whines and moans.  I could go on and on, but I shall not.  Will they leave?  Of course not.  That would be too easy.  I wonder if I should pack up and leave too?  Really throw a wrench in their plans.

I watched TNA Lockdown 2008 last night.  It was a good PPV, not a great PPV however.  The Lethal Lockdown match was a bit disappointing.  I’ve never seen one before, and I guess my hopes were a bit higher for this one.  Although Cage and Styles falling off of a ladder, on to a table, on top of the cage was impressive, but lame at the same time.  Angle vs. Samoa Joe in the MMA match was weird.  I thought it was going to be a Japanese Puro style match, but I was wrong.  It just looked and felt weird when I was watching.  The pace was slow in the beginning with a ton of submission attempts throughout.  At least Joe won the title, FINALLY...  Nothing other really note worthy I can remember, Curry Man (he’s hot, he’s spicy, he tastes great!) somersault of the cage was cool, and Kaz’s Flux Capacitor was freakin’ sweet. 

 

I know pro wrestling is fake and all that, but I’ve been watching 15+ years and can’t get enough somehow. 

I guess it was bound to happen, but I finally got “busted” at work today.  Not really busted in a bad way, but compared to all the crap I’ve pulled in the past, it’s a small crack in the armor.

I coined and claimed status after I was blatantly playing around on Photoshop at my old job.  I mean, everybody saw it.  And the boss saw it too.  I BS’ed my way out of that one.  So, of course I felt invincible after that.  Then at the same job I lost some cash out of the register (people could order stuff from us, and pay cash at the warehouse), and somehow did not get canned, and therefore, felt even more bulletproof.  I’ve made a few mistakes at this job as well, and walked away harm free.  I also failed a state inspection at a grocery store I worked at.  Even more concrete evidence.  But it just snowballed, going back to yesterday in to my “demotion” to working in the shipping department, and general work in the warehouse.  Which blows beyond all belief.  But supposedly after 30 days of a “trial” basis they’ll (my bosses) see what my next step will be.  Of course I’ll be gunning for my old listing position.  Now, as I’ve heard, is being filled by one of the shipping people.  So if that is the case, I loose my desk, the only thing I can call my own in the office.  I had a cubicle, but that got taken away to promote “Team Communication”.  And that turned out freakin’ fantastic.  So I’ll be quite angry at if this happens. 

I’ve always compared these situations to old school side-to-side RPG battles a la Final Fantasy, Pokemon, and what have you.  The enemy has low HP, and has me left with low HP.  My time gage is almost full, but I have no idea how far along my opponents is, and I hope and pray that my turn comes next to use a Potion, Elixir, or any curative spell I have.  So, I’ll consider this round as my enemy’s gage filled up first and connected leaving me left with 1 HP and in critical status.

I’ll use the only potion (a Hi-Potion for those who care) I got and will heal me to 251HP.

So, next round either:

a) It’s going to connect, and connect hard leaving me for dead.

b) I make a triumphant comeback which the annals of RPG history have never seen before and claim victory and 50,000EXP, 500AP, and an X-Potion.

This is going to be the longest time gauge fill up in my RPG history.

On a cynical side note, I don’t have to work with the stupid Russian guy anymore! (Well for 30 days at least  -_-;)

Well, the Buffalo Sabres have been officially eliminated from playoff contention.  No real big surprise from me.  Losing Drury, Briere, and Campbell is not a good way to start things.  Dropping 12 games mid-season doesn’t help things any either.  I went to 2 games this season.  They were expensive, but still worth it.  I sat six rows from the ice for the March 5^th game against Washington.  Which, I highly recommend to any hockey fan to sit real close at least once.  And then, 12 rows up in “300 Land” against Boston on March 31^st.  The seats weren’t that bad.  A lot more leg room than I remember.  I still kind of bummed out I couldn’t go to the Winter Classic.  That’s never going to happen around here any time soon, if ever.  Oh well, there’s always next season.  Now I have to wait until October to watch hockey again…

As the title says, and as I have been saying since about October, I work with idiots and morons.

First, a little background. I started working at my current employer in about mid-July. We are an online store that sells stuff on our own site, eBay, and Amazon and our own little storefront. Anyway, it's a glorified warehouse job, which is fine as any money is good money.

To make a long story short, the Russian decided to take all of the items off of about 4 pallets and made little piles on the floor. What we normally do, is take an item, see if we have it in the system and add to the total and put it in the appropriate spot in the warehouse. So, he's basically doing the work twice. And then he wrote a note to my other co-worker who comes in at 7am telling him to do the work for him. He ended the note with "Also, Good Morning!" So, that goes in my book as both stupid and moronic.

SIDEBAR

I've decided I'm going to try and not going to be one of those people who post about every little thing, every single day. Just what pops in my little head, like the above. Since I have a feeling that this is going to be a continuing series, I'm numbering each individual part using Roman Numerals. Just something to keep in mind.

So, I turned 25 today.  A freakin' quarter century old.  Figured I'd try out a Live Journal thing, just to see what happens.  I'll probably lose interest in about 3 or so weeks, but, you never know.  Should be more fun than getting your ears pulled 25 times by a Russian co-worker.  Yeah, that actually happened today.